Language Insight appoints Strategic Director to continue growth and expansion
2019 Queen’s Award winner Language Insight appoint Federica Meacci as Strategic Director in order to continue their rapid rate of growth and expansion. Continue reading
Tag: transcription
Tarjama Launches its Digital Platform for Online-Translation, Transcription and Content Creation Services
Clients can now request translation, content creation and transcription services faster and easier, with flexible turnaround times and at competitive rates. Continue reading
‘Translation Agencies Are Cancelling My Contracts’ — California’s AB5 Bill Starts to Bite
Days before California’s gig worker bill takes effect, journalists and photographers sue state. American Translators Association doubles down in fight to exempt translators and interpreters. Continue reading
Reader Polls: Rev Pay Cut, Shift to Hourly Rates, Edit Distance, Translation Regulations
LSPs moving toward hourly rates for linguists? Edit distance a viable metric long-term? Are regulations important to translation demand? Will Rev recover from bad press over transcriptionist pay cuts? Continue reading
Machine Translation and ASR Provider AppTek Buys Speech Tech Firm Ignite-Tek
MT and speech recognition company AppTek expands natural language understanding (NLU) capabilities with acquisition of speech technology provider Ignite-Tek. Continue reading
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Transcription Provider Rev.com Battles Media Firestorm After Freelancer Rate Cut
Rev cast as gig economy villain over sudden, poorly communicated rate cut for freelancers. Saga may serve as cautionary tale for translation startups. Continue reading
UN to Host Bake-Off for Remote Interpreting Platforms, NMT, Speech-to-Text
UN asks vendors to pitch solutions for remote interpreting, neural machine translation, speech-to-text, etc. to secure one of 25 spots at January 2020 conferencing tech fair in Geneva. Continue reading
Here’s How Appen Collects the Language Data So Central to AI
Appen CEO, Mark Brayan, speaks at SlatorCon San Francisco 2019 on the expensive, complex, and crucial process of collecting language data for AI. Continue reading
Google Resumes Human Transcription of Assistant Audio Content
Google touts new data privacy protections for its transcription programs, which were suspended after a reviewer leaked confidential Dutch audio in July 2019. Continue reading
Machine Translation Largely MIA at Google I/O and Microsoft Build 2019
Google I/O and Microsoft Build 2019 were short on big language tech reveals, although relevant announcements and previews were sprinkled throughout both events. Continue reading
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Automated Transcription Provider Trint Secures USD 4.5m in Series A
AI-based transcription provider Trint has increased its total funding raised to USD 7.8m, with the unique twist of adding NMT into its platform to allow multilingual content distribution. Continue reading
Automated Transcription Provider Verbit Raises USD 23m in Series A
Verbit CEO Tom Livne discusses the startup’s Series A and outlines the most common use cases for the automatic transcription platform. Continue reading
What the Translation Industry Can Learn from Transcription
Hybrid Transcription services powered by neural transcription engines are changing the playing field for transcription companies, and the language services industry will do well to learn from... Continue reading
Appen Posts Revenues of AUD 111m for 2016, Up 34%
Language services and data provider Appen continues to ride the machine learning and artificial intelligence boom, clocking up revenue growth of 34% versus 2016. While shares are up more than... Continue reading
Is Transcription the Canary in the Translation Gold Mine?
An in-depth look into technology’s impact on the transcription business and the parallels that exist with the language services industry. We talk to current and former transcription professionals... Continue reading
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